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You wrote this right?â€ he said. â€œIt tells how to defeat Set.â€ Thoth unfolded the papyrus pages. â€œOh, dear. I hate reading my old work.… — Rick Riordan
I donâ€™t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive… — Oscar Wilde
There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write… — Toni Morrison
I want so to live that I work with my hands and my feeling and my brain. I want a garden, a small house, grass,… — Katherine Mansfield
â€ŽA day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes. — Simone de Beauvoir
At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm… — Natalie Clifford Barney
The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, youâ€™re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may… — Neil Gaiman
I hereby certify that the bearer of this note, Nikolai Ivanovich, spent the night in question at Satan's ball, having been lured there in a… — Mikhail Bulgakov
Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and,… — Margaret Mahy
Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you want to write,… — Walter Moers
To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only… — Bertrand Russell
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. — John Fowles
Why does the Destroyer hate Artemis? (Cassandra) Love. Why else? Love, hatred, and revenge are the most powerful emotions on earth. Apollymi wants revenge on… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash. — Kurt Vonnegut
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled… — Raymond Chandler
Ever hear the expression "write what you know?" My version says "write what you want to know." If you want to know about the history… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
On the whole, stories don't write themselves. — Neil Gaiman
I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul wonâ€™t survive. — Paulo Coelho
Sometimes people say to me, â€œI want to write, but I have five kids, a full-time job, a wife who beats me, a tremendous debt… — Natalie Goldberg
I wrote poetry from the time I could write. That was the only way I could begin to express who I was but the poems… — Francesca Lia Block

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